scholarly journals Quakerism: A Quest for Peace in the Road from Elephant Pass

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-226
Author(s):  
Badri Prasad Pokharel ◽  
Paras Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
The Road ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

The 20th century ended very cruelly in different parts of the world with huge mass of massacres, blood shedding and terrorism which subsequently deteriorate human mind and people who were destined to live in terror, skepticism, and ultimately lack of belief not only in others but in self too. The intensive integration of sustainable peace has been preoccupied, but pragmatically such words remain in rhetoric. Quakerism with the inception of Quakers, a group of friends aligned with positive thinking for the conflict hit society, has embarked the contemporary war ridden society for human betterments, equality, progress and ultimately belief along with the inclination of happy and prosperous meme. Nihal de Silva, a Sri Lankan novelist best known for writing about the civil war that panicked the land for more than three decades has been remembered for bringing the trauma and anticipation of pacification in his works. His best and ever known novel The Road from Elephant Pass is analyzed and interpreted as a commencement of human betterment and sustainable peace in the long war ridden peninsula.

Covenants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Kingston
Keyword(s):  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
The Road ◽  
Church Of Ireland ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Church ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter explores the notion of covenant as an instrument which may facilitate closer and more binding relationships between or among churches wanting to commit to each other in a further step on the road to complete unity. The history of the term is outlined, noting its origin with the World Council of Churches. Several recent covenant relationships in different parts of the world are examined, with comments on their development and documentation. It is observed that a leading motivation in the establishment of covenants has been that of mission, while a significant challenge has been varying theologies of ministry. Particular note is taken of the covenant between the Methodist Church in Ireland and the Church of Ireland (Anglican), in which these churches are formulating legislation to facilitate interchangeability of ministries.

Features of the next generation of proton accelerators

1964 ◽  
Vol 278 (1374) ◽  
pp. 439-451
Keyword(s):  
Next Generation ◽  
Fixed Frequency ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Extensions ◽  
Similar Theme ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Accelerator Design ◽  
Different Parts

As an introduction to the subject of future accelerators, it will be useful to consider briefly the main points of discussion at the three international conferences on a similar theme held in 1956, 1959 and 1961. In 1956 there were several laboratories, in different parts of the world, engaged in building machines based on the latest important new principle in accelerator design, namely, alternating-gradient focusing. There was a feeling, however, that the end of the road had not yet been reached, and at the 1956 Conference the success of earlier innovations encouraged the accelerator physicists to present a number of new ideas. Some of them were rather natural extensions of known principles, as, for example, a machine of fixed frequency with alternating-gradient focusing (F. F. A. G. ; see Kerst et al. 1956). This was also the first conference at which there were serious suggestions for colliding-beam experiments (Kerst 1956). The ideas presented by the Russian physicists were much more spectacular; in particular the suggestion of Budker (1956) for setting up very large neutralized electron currents to provide guiding fields in the mega-gauss region.

Peace in Lebanon and the Middle East

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-155
Author(s):  
Salim El Hoss
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Core ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Sustainable Peace

Lebanon has never experienced an extended interval of sustainable peace since its independence. In 1975, Lebanon was the scene of a civil war. In 1982, a full-scale war was mounted by Israel. In the process massacres were perpetrated by the Israelis. The current crisis has been punctuated by momentous tragic events which brought salient changes in the sordid course of life in the country, unleashing a prolonged cabinet crisis, and finally an intricate, highly critical discord over the election of a new president. It was no accident that so many spots of tension are boiling at the same time in the Middle East in Lebanon, in Palestine, in Iraq, and in Sudan. The conventional wisdom is that, in the final analysis, Palestine lies at the core of all the mayhem. The linkage between the repeated Lebanese crises and the Palestinian issue is only too obvious. The proclivity of Arab officialdom is to negotiate within the context of what is known as the Arab initiative. The Euro–American declared position is that any negotiations should be conducted in accordance with the Road Map sponsored by the Quartet. Both initiatives leave a lot to be desired.

scholarly journals Reforming Police: Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip C. Stenning ◽  
Clifford D. Shearing
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Different Parts

A few years ago, David Bayley and Clifford Shearing (1996) argued that at the end of the 20th century we were witnessing a ‘watershed’ in policing, when transformations were occurring in the practices and sponsorship of policing on a scale unprecedented since the developments that heralded the creation of the ‘New Police’ in the 19th century. In this special issue of the journal, we and our fellow contributors turn our attention to a somewhat neglected aspect of this ‘quiet revolution’ in policing (Stenning & Shearing, 1980), namely the nature of the opportunities for, and challenges posed by, the reform of policing in different parts of the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Our attention in this issue is particularly focused on the opportunities, drivers and challenges in reforming public (state-sponsored) police institutions.

1. Introduction

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Imaginary World ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Parts

What is cinema? What is history? And what is the history of cinema? Cinema is a complex of things: a technology, an industry, an art form, a way or ways of rendering the world as images and sounds, and as a component of the imaginary world each of us keeps inside our head. These different parts stand in constantly changing relationships with each other and with aspects of the world outside its immediate boundaries. The Introduction explains how there is no single template for how cinema history is to be written, but this VSI provides an idea of what it took for cinema to become the major art of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Editorial: Learning Transformation through Innovation and Sustainability in Educational Practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Author(s):  
Bulent Tarman ◽  
Smitha Dev
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Academic World ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Conference ◽  
Active Interaction ◽  
Different Parts

In the academic world "Real learning" in any form is an active interaction of human mind with past experience, and that relates to man, machine, materials and ideas. Therefore any teaching and learning process should be aimed at providing ample scope for the learners mind to interact and acquire fruitful experience. Only through this active interaction, the learners and educators can reconstruct his/her experience in light of new experience leading to "Real learning".  This enables to enhance the competency, tenacity and inquisitiveness among the scholars.  A dedicated and focused approach towards different teaching and learning experience of educators from different parts of the world, especially from the Middle East has been widely discussed in this Special Issue of general Education Conference.

scholarly journals Eesti- ja Liivimaa libahundipärimus rahvapärase ontoloogia muutumise peegeldajana

Mäetagused ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Merili Metsvahi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article gives a short overview of the Estonian werewolf tradition in the 16th and 17th centuries and a glimpse into the 19th–20th-century werewolf beliefs. The image of werewolf of the earlier and later periods is compared. The differences between the images of these two periods are explained with the help of the approaches of Tim Ingold and Philipp Descola, which ground the changes in the worldview taking place together with the shift from the pre-modern society into modernity. The mental world of the 16th–17th-century Estonian and Livonian peasant did not encompass the category of nature, and the borders between the human being and the animal on the one side and organism and environment on the other side were not so rigid as they are in today’s people’s comprehension of the world. The ability to change into a wolf was seen as an added possibility of acquiring new experiences and benefits. As the popular ontology had changed by the second half of the 19th century – the human mind was raised into the ultimate position and the animal was comprehended as being inferior – the transformation of a man into an animal, if it was seriously taken at all, seemed to be strange and unnatural.

A Research on Digital Violence in Social Media

2022 ◽  
pp. 270-290
Author(s):  
Ergün Kara ◽  
Gülşen Kirpik ◽  
Attila Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
New Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

The internet, which started to enter our lives with the last quarter of the 20th century, is being used more and more widely every day due to the facilitating effect of technological innovations on human life. Especially in the last 20 years, people have moved their social lives to the internet due to the fast and practical access to information, the diversity of opportunities it offers, the freedom to meet people from different parts of the world, and similar conveniences. In this new process, which is called the information society, there are many areas from social life to economy, from politics to health. However, this structure, which facilitates human life, has also brought with it negativities that can cause serious problems in interpersonal relations. All these negativities, which have a legal dimension, are described as the concept of “digital violence.”

Morality, Reality, and Humanitarian Intervention

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. J. Coady
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
International Law ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
Different Parts

There are two profound points of departure for discussions of the moral evaluation of humanitarian intervention and its partial echo in international law, the Responsibility to Protect. The first is the distressingly massive damage sometimes inflicted on people by their own governments (or other politically powerful and unhindered agents), and the second concerns the appalling disasters and ravages of war. The first cries out to outsiders for action to prevent or discontinue the horror (which may itself involve forms of warfare, such as civil war), but the second cautions against those forms of intervention or protection that themselves threaten to replace the horror with something as or even more damaging. The tension between these two instincts has been a significant issue in many violent conflicts in very different parts of the world in the last part of the twentieth century and into the present day, and, of course, has earlier historical precedents....

Theologie als Zeitgenossenschaft Zum 90. Geburtstag von Jürgen Moltmann

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 328-335
Author(s):  
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
Theological Thinking ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Suffering God

AbstractThe article presents Jürgen Moltmann as one of the most important contemporary theologians worldwide. It describes the development of his theology as a journey of theological discoveries and explorations which have influenced many central themes of theology in the 20th century and beyond. Moltmann’s Theology of Hope in 1964, which established his worldwide fame, was an important reference point for various liberation theologies in different parts of the world. His book on The Crucified God made clear that hope in a Christian sense always includes a deep theological account of suffering. God in Creation presented his ecological doctrine of creation, which attempted to overcome an anthropocentric theological thinking that ignored the presence of God’s Spirit in non-human nature. In his messianic Christology he describes redemption as something including the whole cosmos and all victims of evolution. Moltmann’s eschatology relates God’s justice and love by developing a notion of judgment as healing and saving judgment

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